Holmes Image of Comet Hale-Bopp

Image taken with a 125mm Schmidt.
This was a 3.5-minute unfiltered exposure on hypered Kodak 2415 film,
at 1030 UT, 7 March. Visually, the ion tail was much more prominent
than even two mornings earlier, traceable in binoculars to perhaps
twice the length of the dust tail in suburban skies (limiting
magnitude about 5).